[R]eports about very innocent people being thrown into detention, where they could be held for years without any representation or charges, is distressing;

Press Briefing by Dana Perino, The White House, October 1, 2007

She was talking about Myanmar, though other places come to mind ...

These jackals know no boundaries... they're treachery has no limit. And they're war crimes at home and abroad will be stopped, only after is has hallowed out. A once potentially great nation, America is no more. It is just a matter of what will be left before the vultures move in to chew on the left over bones. You will be assimilated. Best to learn Chinese or Russian or both; Worse to come, so says Dante.

"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.

"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."